Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent" (1962) made the advocacy point in journalism through the character "Frankly Unctuous", the prime time talking head news reader of the day (I always imagined David Brinkley as Frankly Unctuous). The charged words, the story placement, the tilt of the head -- all revealing liberal bias and interpretation in reporting.
This problem has been with us probably for the entire 20th century and will be a problem for all of this century as well. When journalists were elevated to "hero" status during Watergate, this slippery slope became even worse. Linda Greenhouse Gasbag should recognize the failure of her generation (and mine) was to embrace this claptrap called liberalism and moral relativism. We really are the worst generation.
Thanks for the giant pic. I needed that.